Improvement in cigar-packing implements



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Cigar-Packing Implement. No, 159,929 I Patented Feb. 16,1375.

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SIGMUND JAGOBY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN CIGAR-PACKING IMPLEMENTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 159,929, dated February16, 1875; application filed December 17, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SIGMUND JAOOBY, of the city, county, and State ofNew York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in PackingCigars, of which the followin g is a specification:

This invention consists in the combination, with a cigar-box, of apeculiar funnel or topless and bottomless frame, which fits the sides ofthe box nicely, and though which the cigars can be readily introducedinto the box and compressed therein, so that, when a sufficient quantityof cigars has been introduced and compressed in a box and the funnel iswithdrawn a small space is left between the cigars and the sides andends of the box, and the cigars, particularly those adjacent to the endsof the box, are not liable to become injured.

In the drawing, the letter A designates a cigar-box, which is made ofsheet metal, with a cover, B, which fits the body of the box nicely, andwhich is connected to said body by a hinge-joint, a, so that a firm anddurable box is obtained.

For the purpose of filling this box with cigars I use a funnel ortopless and bottomless frame, 0, which is, by preference, made of sheetmetal, and which fits the interior of the box A, but which is made abouttwice as high as the body of the box in which the same is to be used.After this funnel has been placed in the empty box I introduce aquantity of cigars sufficient to fill the box, and then I compress thesecigars by a follower or plunger which fits the funnel, the power appliedbeing such that the bulk of the cigars contained in the funnel isreduced, so that when the funnel is withdrawn the box can be closed.

By these means I am enabled to compress the cigars in each box withoutdanger of spoiling any of them, and after the funnel has been withdrawna small space is left between the sides and ends of the box and thecigars,

and thereby the cigars are preserved against injury.

My funnel or topless and bottomless frame gars against moisture oragainst the influence of the outside atmosphere, and consequently theflavor and aroma of the cigars are fully preserved. At the same time ametallic box is not liable to get broken, and it can be used over andover again without difficulty; and even if the first cost of themetallic boxes is greater than that of wooden boxes, the use of themetallic boxes will in the end he a saving.

I am aware that four separate and independent plates have been adjustabl y connected to blocks attached to a rectangular base-plate, inorder to pass the said adjustable plates, one at a time, along the innersurface of the sides and ends of a cigar-box, and then said plates beingtightened by set-screws for compressing the cigars, for the purpose ofremoving them from the box to examine them; but such is not myinvention, nor can it be used for the same purpose.

I/Vhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The implement described for packing cigars in boxes, the same consistingof a rectangular frame constructed to fit within a cigar-box, said framebeing open at top and bottom, whereby the cigars may be introduced atthe top and compressed in place, preferably by a follower, within thecigarbox, substantially as described, for the purpose specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand andseal. I

SIGMUND JAOOBY. LL.

Witnesses:

W. HAUFF, E. F. KASTENHUBER.

